Corporate Counsel - Texas
The Corporate Counsel position is a key legal advisor responsible for managing the company’s legal and risk affairs, ensuring compliance, and supporting business operations across various departments. This role involves drafting and negotiating complex agreements, including those related to infrastructure development, real estate, acquisitions, and commercial services. The Counsel will also oversee litigation coordination, manage regulatory matters, and contribute to corporate governance and policy development. This position requires a proactive, business-minded attorney with strong communication, legal judgment, and project management skills who thrives in a collaborative and evolving environment. The role reports directly to the President of the company.
Key Qualifications and Skills for Corporate Counsel:

Active membership in the Texas State Bar or a reciprocal state, in good standing.
At least 4 years of legal experience in a law firm or in-house setting.
Strong experience drafting/negotiating agreements for infrastructure, M&A, utilities, and commercial contracts.
Preferred knowledge of Municipal Utility Districts (MUD) financing, land use regulations, and regulatory compliance.
Excellent written/verbal communication, business judgment, and multitasking ability.

Position Details for the Corporate Counsel:

Type of role: Permanent
Schedule: Full-time
Location: Texas, San Antonio, Austin, or Houston Preferred

Compensation
Pay: The annualized compensation for this position ranges from $170,000 to $200,000 or more depending on the candidate's experience. Pay is based on multiple factors including but not limited to work experience, qualifications, credentials, and location. Benefits are also included.

Confidentiality
Latitude will not disclose your identity or propose you to prospective clients without your prior consent. Candidates selected for further consideration will be contacted.

About Latitude
Latitude is a full-service national legal services company that specializes in providing high-end, flexible contract engagements and permanent positions to outstanding attorneys, paralegals, compliance officers and legal operations professionals. We work closely with our candidates to understand their career goals and match them with the substantive engagements they want with our clients, who range from Fortune 500 corporations to small companies and Global 50 law firms to boutiques. With offices coast-to-coast, we employ legal professionals across the country. Latitude’s client service leaders and recruiters are all former practicing attorneys and understand the demands faced by those we serve.

Latitude Engagements
Great attorneys and other legal professionals who are seeking contract engagements or consulting roles choose to work with Latitude because of our competitive compensation and benefits, sophisticated and engaging work, a chance to work with great clients and peers, and a refreshing blend of freedom with self-designed boundaries. Our own experience as practicing attorneys and our client relationships enable us to effectively tailor our candidate proposals to the specific practice strengths and interpersonal attributes that matter most to our clients and to match our candidates with the opportunities that will be most fulfilling to them.
Latitude engaged professionals have the level of skill, experience, and judgment as would be expected of a permanent member of our client’s corporate legal department or law firm and the versatility to step into challenging environments and hit the ground running.

If you have the right skills, personality and experience, Latitude helps you do what you are good at in a more rewarding way. Latitude engaged professionals serve on a full- or part-time engagement basis, and work remotely or on-site at the client office.

While we are able to work only with a select few of the most outstanding candidates, our customized approach results in a high success rate for those candidates we recommend.
For more information about Latitude, please visit us at https://latitudelegal.com.

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